Scandalous Revelations from Current and Former Park West Gallery Insiders
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Fine Art Registry®
"His [Scaglione's] lawyer is right, Park West is selling shit. All gallery salespeople, including Morris Shapiro used to call it 'ship shit'."
What follows is the latest scoop that has been reported to us from a number of insiders at Park West Gallery. The information comes from reliable sources who want to remain anonymous for fear of retribution.
As the days click by and another new year is upon us, Albert Scaglione and Park West Gallery continue to amaze and astound us with their arrogance. So what's happening at the self-proclaimed "world's largest art gallery" in the solar system?
A reliable source emailed Fine Art Registry® after reading Litigation Update No. 5, and specifically the section in the update where we reported that Park West Gallery's own lawyer had referred to Park West Gallery artwork as "shit" while at the recent depositions taken in NYC at the end of 2009. The email we received is quoted below in part:
"His [Scaglione's] lawyer is right, Park West is selling shit. All gallery salespeople, including Morris Shapiro used to call it 'ship shit'."
What a stunning and outrageous revelation. So Park West Gallery is NOT dealing in "fine art" after all, it's dealing in crap and they know it. As far as Fine Art Registry is concerned, Park West Gallery is perpetrating a fraud on the public. Buyers have a right to know they are paying big bucks for crap.
So is Albert Scaglione going to sue his prized lawyer, Robert Goldman, the Park West gallery Director and salesman extraordinaire Morris Shapiro, and all of the Park West employees for defamation and slander now?
Now that the truth is out, Fine Art Registry is astonished that Albert Scaglione and Park West Gallery had the gall to sue Fine Art Registry and victims, Sharon Day, Julian Howard, Martha Szostak, Mike Vallillo, Al Best, and Debi Austin for defamation and slander - for nothing more than speaking the truth about Park West Gallery's deceptive and unfair trade practices and about their experiences concerning the sale of the gallery's forged, fake and worthless artwork as well as worthless appraisals while all along Park West Gallery's lily-livered lawyer is referring to his own client's artwork as "shit" and incredibly, to boot, we now learn, according to a very reliable source, that Park West Gallery's own silver-tongued, salesman, Morris Shapiro, and all the Park West Gallery employees also refer to the Park West Gallery art inventory as "SHIP SHIT". We were unable to verify this information with Morris Shapiro as we have been told in no uncertain terms by Park West Gallery's lawyers that we must not contact the gallery's principals for comment on our articles and that they will not respond.
How can Park West Gallery and its lawyers with a straight face march into the courts and try to maintain a claim for defamation and slander against Fine Art Registry and all the victims when its own lawyer (golden boy, Goldman), is calling the very artwork he is being paid obscene sums of money by Albert Scaglione to defend, "SHIT"? How is it that Park West Gallery lawyers can keep up the con on the courts? What kind of game are Park West Gallery and its lawyers playing, here? Isn't it time that Park West Gallery let the cruise lines know the truth? That they are peddling what they all refer to as "ship shit" to unsuspecting cruise passengers? And we thought Madoff was bad. This is insanity.
More news:
Also in response to Litigation Update No. 5, we received information from another Park West Gallery inside source that further proves that Plymouth Auctioneering is indeed an alter-ego of Albert Scaglione and that Park West Gallery uses Plymouth Auctioneering as a front, in order to escape liability. For more on the relationship between Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering, be sure to read our report in Litigation Update No. 5. Here's what we have recently learned from a trusted source:
"Anyway, if Plymouth Auctioneering is owned by Scotts and Brits [as claimed by Albert Scaglione] how come Rhonda Foreman is calculating commissions? Rhonda has worked in accounting for at least 3 to 4 years. She calculates all our commissions and payroll. All the auctioneers hiring, interviews and training was done by Jack Sweetman and he always worked for Albert. Albert is lying about everything. Why should Plymouth [Auctioneering] be any different? I'm not sure how many different accounts and companies they [Park West Gallery] have, but trust me, at the end, every last auctioneer works for Albert Scaglione!"
It seems that Park West Gallery is stepping up its VIP auctions these days. We received this email:
"Park West started land auctions again and rehired a few old auctioneers. Possibly in anticipation of losing ship contracts. And VIP business is just booming (one held somewhere every week). As they say, there is one born every day. No more layoffs for now, but the mood is pretty gloomy."
Fine Art Registry learned that former (good old boy) auctioneers Chris Marchand and Rob Ducat are back with Park West Gallery. It was reported to Fine Art Registry that Al Scaglione recently paid these two hucksters a great deal of money up front to return to perform the Park West Gallery VIP events which we understand cost the gallery a fortune as they offer these events to attendees, all-expenses paid. But make no mistake about it, Park West Gallery expects the VIP attendees to return the favor and SPEND - and the more the better. BEWARE of Park West Gallery VIP auctions and Marchand and Ducat.
We appreciate the updates we receive from all of our sources. If you have information concerning Park West Gallery, Plymouth Auctioneering, Park West VIP auctions, or any other comments you would like to share anonymously or otherwise, please email us at . Thanks to all of you who have come forward.
— by Fine Art Registry®
| January 8, 2010
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